Stylistics and Social Cognition

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Amsterdam - New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007. — 277 p.Introduction (Lesley Jeffries). A. Richards’ Theory of Metaphor: Between Protocognitivism and Poststructuralism (David West). The Socio-Psychology of ‘Interpretive Communities’ and a 19 Cognitive-Semiotic Model for Analysis. (Ulf Cronquist). Interpreting Cognitive Metaphor: Using Relevance Theory and an Alternative Account (Ziwei Mimi Huang). Challenging our World View: The Role of Metaphors in the Construction of a New (Text) World. (María Dolores Porto Requejo). The Attraction of Opposites: The Ideological Function of Conventional and Created Oppositions in the Construction of In-groups and Out-groups in News Texts (Matt Davies). The Same Old Story: Uncovering Archetypal Narrative in Real Home’ Magazine Features (Diane Davies). Forms of Address: Social Value and Expressive Potential (Iryna Tryshchenko). Telling Stories: Males and Females Doing Gender in Personal Narratives about Trouble (Marina Lambrou). You Must Alter Your Style, Madam: Pamela and the Gendered Construction of Narrative Voice in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel (Larry L. Stewart). Embedded Meaning of Free Verse Types - With an Example from the Introduction of T. S. Eliot’s. ‘Ash-Wednesday’ in Swedish (Eva Lilja). Poetic Deviation and Cross-Cultural Cognition (Mirjana Bonačić). The Discourse of Silence: The Unspoken in Contemporary American Love Poetry (Judith Munat). Top or Flop: Characteristics of Bestsellers (Sabine Albers). ‘A Tale of Two Cities’: Lexical Bundles as Indicators of Linguistic Choices and Socio-cultural Traces. (Tania Shepherd, Sonia Zyngier and Vander Viana). Naughty or Nice? Empirical Studies of Literature in the Classroom (Sonia Zyngier).